The Tulip Driven Life

By: Thomas F. Booher Progressives can more easily embrace those to the left of them, because while they might not want X yet, they know that eventually they will. Such is the nature of Progressivism/leftward drift. Conservatives on the other hand, basically put a stake in the ground and say, "Here I stand". The weak conservatives usually have their anchor dragged leftward by the ship of progressivism. Even the stronger conservatives can rarely tolerate those to their right, because that isn't where their "stake/anchor" is planted.   This applies in state and church government. If you are considered to be "breaking ranks" with conservatives by going to the right of them/speaking out against something they are not, you're cut loose from the conservatives or even disciplined by them. Meanwhile, the conservatives who lurch leftward are still able to converse with the conservatives they departed from, mainly because the conservatives don't see those...

 By: Thomas F. Booher 

 This is from my sermon notes on Luke 6:27-36, on how we are to love our enemies. But it also shows that loving our enemies does not mean we allow our enemies to destroy us without resistance.  Luke 6:27-36 – Love Your Enemies – Sermon Outline Intro: How do we love those who hate us? Jesus teaches His disciples how to do so.   Need: Jesus is speaking to His disciples in the context of persecution they will face for faithfulness.   Theme: Christ’s kingdom ethic of love and mercy.      I.        Treat even your enemies as you want others to treat you. (27-31) A.       Recall the Context of Jesus words, spoken to His disciples/apostles and the crowds who “hear”.        1.       Christ is preparing His 12 apostles to take the Gospel, healing and teaching even as He has done.        2.   ...

 

By: Thomas F. Booher  I would encourage you to read (in print or online) Matthew Poole's commentary on I Corinthians 5. The PCA has been leavened with scandalous wickedness for years & hasn't purged it out. They have not because there has been a lack of a will to do so. This is not an indictment of those who truly have fought (and were largely ignored even by naive conservatives) to purge the leaven that was among them (and it isn't just Greg Johnson/Side-B issues, it's woke-ism, feminism, phony racist charges, etc.). But it is to say that whether we like it or not, in Presbyterianism you are covenanted together, even if the worst leaven isn't in your Presbytery.  This spreadsheet is constantly updated and shows how grim things really are in the PCA. Overture 37 is already dead, and overture 23 is on the brink of failing as well. Both of them, but especially 23, would have focused on eradicating "gay but celibate" Christian pastors in the PCA.  https:/...